CHAPTER III 



FRESH- WATER SHRIMP (Gammarus pulex) l 



OF all the forms of food partaken of by 

 the trout the Crustacea are the best. When 

 I say the best, I mean that trout fed upon 

 Crustacea seem to thrive better than trout 

 fed on anything else. In this case, at any 

 rate, the most wholesome form of food 

 seems also to be the most welcome ; for 

 though I have tried feeding trout with 

 almost every form of food, I have never 

 come across another form which they have 

 taken with anything approaching the 

 voracity with which they take Crustacea. 



Fortunately, I can bring forward a case 

 to show how trout thrive when fed upon 

 Crustacea. In April, 1897, Colonel Walker 



1 Rewritten from an article in The Field, April 16, 1898, 

 under the heading of " The Fresh- Water Shrimp as a 

 Wet Fly." 



